Erin Arbnori

Erin Arbnori (1771-10 July 1815) was an Albanian mamluk in the service of the First French Empire. Arbnori was kidnapped from his home in Shkoder at the age of fourteen and sold into slavery in Syria, and he was purchased by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799, being one of the 2,000 mamluks bought by the French First Republic during its Egyptian Campaign. Arbnori served in the Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard, and he led a company of Mamelukes at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. Arbnori served Napoleon faithfully until his defeat in 1815, and he was murdered by French Royalists in Marseilles while awaiting transportation back to Egypt during the Second White Terror.